Apartment Complex Cleaning in Phoenix

What apartment complex cleaning covers

• Lobby, mail room and leasing office, done before residents come through
• Hallway carpets vacuumed, stairwells swept, handrails and railings wiped down
• The elevator cab, the mirrors and the dirt in the tracks
• Laundry room: lint traps emptied, machine tops and folding counter
• Gym mirrors, equipment frames and the mats wiped down
• Trash room and the dumpster corral swept and tidied up

What is usually not included

• The inside of anyone's apartment. Turning a vacant unit over between tenants is a move out clean, and it is usually priced per unit.
• The pool itself. The water and the equipment belong to the pool company; the deck and the pool restroom can be on the route if you ask.
• The parking lot and the grounds — lot sweeping, landscaping and snow normally go to different contractors.

When to book apartment complex cleaning

Book this if you manage a building or an HOA. It is usually a recurring contract, and often combined with move out cleans between tenants.

How long it takes

This is a route rather than a single visit: someone passes through the common areas on set days, and the inside of the units is not part of it. There is no hour when the building is empty, so the route runs early and works around people coming and going.

What makes the price go up

• The number of buildings and floors. Each one adds another stairwell and another elevator
• Whether the weekend is covered, or Monday starts with everything the weekend left in the trash room and the laundry room
• Amenities. A gym, a clubhouse, pool restrooms and a dog wash are each another stop
• Whether vacant unit turnovers are in the contract or billed one by one

What to ask before you book

• Are empty units included, or is that a separate price for each one?
• Which days will someone be on site, and does that change on holiday weekends?
• Who deals with it when a resident leaves a couch next to the dumpster?

What apartment complex cleaning looks like in Phoenix

Phoenix spreads across the Sonoran Desert in low, wide stucco houses with tile roofs, gravel yards, and tile floors that usually run through most of the plan. It rarely rains, so dust settles and simply stays. In late summer the monsoon rolls walls of dust across the valley, and sliding glass doors open straight onto the patio it lands on.

The work is mostly hard floors and glass. Tile and grout run wall to wall across a wide single-story footprint, and that takes time. After a dust storm there is a fresh layer on window tracks, patio sliders and ceiling fans, and running the air conditioning all summer keeps moving whatever dust is already inside.